The President of the Kennedy Center has offered his artistic credentials in a podcast with a New York Post columnist.
‘I played, like very short periods of time, the flute,’ he said. ‘Do you believe that?’
‘I could have been a flutist.’
‘I had instructors, an instructor coming to teach me how to play the flute.’
‘I play great music,’ Trump said on the podcast. ‘People like the music I play.’
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